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Kali Yuga

Kali Yuga proper noun: in Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.

Proper noun

Kali Yuga

  1. In Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.

Kali Yuga meaning in Hindi, Gujarati and Sanskrit

Kali Yuga in Hindi

fourth yuga of Hindu cosmology
कलियुग kaliyug, कलि kali

Kali Yuga in Gujarati

Kali Yuga
કલિયુગ kaliyug

Kali Yuga in Sanskrit

the Kali Yuga
पञ्जर pañjara

Forms of Kali Yuga

alternative formKaliyuga
alternative formKali-Yuga
alternative formKalyug

Origin of Kali Yuga

Unadapted borrowing from Sanskrit कलियुग (kaliyuga, “age of darkness”), from कलि (kali, “Kali, Kalipurush, demon of corruption”) + युग (yuga, “yuga”). Some etymologies claim it was named after the worst throw in an ancient Indian dice game.

Questions about Kali Yuga

What does Kali Yuga mean?
Kali Yuga means in Hinduism, the fourth and most evil of four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of yugas, traditionally thought to have begun at midnight (00:00) on 18 February, 3102 B.C.E. under the Julian calendar (23 January under the Gregorian calendar), and lasts for 432,000 years.
What is Kali Yuga in Hindi?
Kali Yuga in Hindi is कलियुग (kaliyug), कलि (kali). See Kali Yuga meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is Kali Yuga?
Kali Yuga is a proper noun.

Words near Kali Yuga in the dictionary

  1. Kalhuhuraa
  2. Kalhumanjehuraa
  3. Kalhurahaa
  4. kali
  5. Kali Puja
  6. Kali Yuga
  7. Kalia
  8. kalian
  9. kalians
  10. Kaliarda
  11. Kalias

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kali Yuga (page history and authors); કલિયુગ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); पञ्जर (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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